25 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Monday, March 25, 2013
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- The EU has approved a new bailout for Cyprus.
- The leader of Syria’s opposition has resigned. The Syrian crisis has also triggered a political crisis in neighboring Lebanon, as this article in the FT explains.
- The UN has reported that at least 35 have been killed over the weekend in Lubumbashi in southeast Congo when militia attacked the city before surrendering to UN troops.
- Violence in Mali continues as the army battles Islamist rebels in Goa.
- The United States will transfer custody of the Bagram prison in Kabul to Afghan authorities later today.
- The leader of the Seleka rebel group in the Central African Republic has declared himself president over the weekend, a move condemned by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon.
- Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai is headed to Qatar today to discuss peace prospects with the Taliban.
- Human Rights Watch has called on Pakistan to hold former military ruler Pervez Musharraf accountable for human rights abuses carried out under his regime. Musharraf has been in a self-imposed exile in London and Dubai for five years and plans to return to Pakistan to run for political office. The Pakistani Taliban have said if he does return, they will send a “death squad” to kill him.
- Bosco Ntaganda has been transferred from the US Embassy in Rwanda to the ICC holding facility in the Netherlands. Diane Marie Amann reviews the charges against him, now that he’s in ICC custody.
- Justice in Conflict points to a clip of ICTY President Theodore Meron on BBC’s HARDtalk over the weekend discussing the progress of international justice since Nuremberg.
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